I used to live ten minutes from off campus, but last April my family moved out of town to greener pastures. I got alot of “the commutes going to kill you” and “you’ll be wishing you never moved after you…
H(e)art House
While I’ve previously talked about finding myself, what I’m studying and how my college has helped me come to terms with who I am and what I hope to do, one of the places on campus that had an important…
Hey U of T, it’s time to get moving!
Can you believe two weeks of classes have already flown by? Life just seems to get insanely busy for us students once the term begins – we are immediately bombarded with quiz dates, assignment deadlines, and mid-term schedules. With a…
Dabble Dabble Dabble
This time last year I was a bright eyed, Aboriginal (Cree, First Nations, or as Derek Zoolander would put it "Abodiginal"), first year, Humanities student. I wanted to do it all: the student clubs, events, sports, meeting more Indigenous students,…
In Search of Wellness: School, extra-curriculars, and Parisian agendas
The end is near! Or at least, that’s my hope, being in my fourth year of undergraduate studies. And yet, the end is already looking somewhat bittersweet. Bitter, because there are still so many things I had thought I would…
go blues go
Some families are really into soccer, others baseball or basketball. With my family, our sport is football (the American version). We play backseat referee, quarterback and commentator every Saturday. That's right, Saturday, not Sunday is game day at my house.…
Commuter Noob: A Cry for Help
From first year to third year, I lived beside the CN Tower and had a 20-minute to commute to campus. Life was soo good. But with a recent turn of events in my life, I’ve decided to move back to…
Make Yourself Uncomfortable
You might want to listen to Gold Forever by The Wanted as you read this post. As the school year starts off with a bang, my time blogging for Life @ U of T comes to a close. My summer…
So you’ve got a bag of free stuff. Now what?
Clubs Day was yesterday, which means that a whole bunch of you probably got at least one of the following: papers and flyers pens pins clips other swag Whether you got it voluntarily or had these items thrust into your…
First Impressions
As someone who is about a 100% awkward with first encounters, no one understands the butterflies that come with them better than I do. More importantly, all of the pressures associated with first impressions leave me more nervous than Frodo…